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UntitledChico da Silva · 1975 · Gouache on canvas mounted on hardboard
An ornate fantastic rooster with curving neck and sweeping multicolored plumage on black. Untitled, Chico da Silva, 1975, gouache on canvas.
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A vertical composition on a near-black ground showing a single stylized fantastic rooster. Its long neck curves downward to a small head with a round eye and an open hooked beak in red and yellow. The body and tail erupt into elaborate plumage filled with teardrop forms, scales, dots and concentric circles in red, blue, green, yellow and orange. Thin radiating lines, curling yellow tendrils and feathery green fronds fan out across the dark background in the naive folk style. A date and the signature are inscribed at the lower left.

Artist
Chico da Silva
Year
1975
Technique
Gouache on canvas mounted on hardboard
Support
Canvas mounted on hardboard
Dimensions
90 x 65 cm
Collection
João Cunha Collection
Signature
FDZILVA, lower left (reversed S)
Photo
Eric Keki
Inventory no.
JCC-027
Article
The Pirambu School

The signature

Detail of the painted signature: «FDZILVA»
The canvas is signed “FDZILVA”, in the lower left corner. The S is reversed, so it reads as the artist's usual signature, “F. D. Silva”. Beside it sits the painter's thumbprint.
Detail of the painter's thumbprint
Detail of the painter's thumbprint

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Photographs free to reuse, with credit (CC BY 4.0)

Chico da Silva, “Untitled” (1975). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-027

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

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